Social enterprises empower communities | MIT News
MIT students launch social enterprises that work with communities to foster financial and environmental sustainability.
June 23, 2015 • ~10 min
Powering desalination with the sun | MIT News
PhD student Natasha Wright makes water safe to drink for rural, off-grid Indian villages.
June 22, 2015 • ~8 min
Teaching development skills on three continents | MIT News
Annual summit expands to three sessions, focused on recycling, health care, and empowering desert communities.
June 12, 2015 • ~7 min
A “graduation” from poverty | MIT News
Study: Anti-poverty intervention provides sustained boost to incomes and wealth.
May 14, 2015 • ~5 min
Advancing "lean research" for improved international development | MIT News
To help alleviate poverty, representatives from MIT D-Lab and Tufts Fletcher School focus on respectful, human-centered research practices in global development.
April 29, 2015 • ~10 min
President Mahamadou Issoufou of Niger visits MIT biophysics lab | MIT News
African leader tours the lab of Ibrahim Cissé, an assistant professor of physics.
April 3, 2015 • ~3 min
Satellite imagery can aid development projects | MIT News
New image-analysis methods can automate identification of cost-effective sites for grants or microgrids.
March 23, 2015 • ~9 min
Interdisciplinary medicine | MIT News
Senior Yiping Xing’s view of health care draws upon research, public health, and policy.
Feb. 9, 2015 • ~7 min
MIT Water Summit brings experts together to discuss global water challenges | MIT News
More than 200 people attend second annual summit organized by the MIT Water Club.
Feb. 4, 2015 • ~2 min
MIT-USAID program releases pioneering evaluation of solar lanterns | MIT News
First report of Comprehensive Initiative on Technology Evaluation offers new framework for assessment.
Jan. 20, 2015 • ~7 min
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